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What a cute poem Ginny..and WOW..what a stunning header!!! That is just fabulous!! Gosh..you can't help but stare at it..it's hypnotizing. You know that does remind me of a gramophone too. First I was going to say an old fashioned lamp, but it's facing up? Its not a vase I guess??

That's a fun poem Ginny! Your lovely pink 'tulip' looks like a part of the old - oops, vintage - gramophone to me - I see the turntable at the bottom. It's been painted a lovely color. Most of the ones I've seen were brass colored.

Enjoyed your versifying but don't have a clue about solving the mystery pix. My first thought was gramophone thingy, but those hummingbird feeder guesses sounded good to me too. I give up. Will look forward to the reveal tomorrow!

Dear beautiful Madam!. I joined blogger since the end of December 2010. The three months of first, I didn't post the articles because I was more interested to learn about HTML and Javascript. My daughter made a blog more earlier than me, and I learned a lot from Intan (my daughter). She has been learning about computer from her father and at her school. I have 3 blogs, two of them wearing Indonesian and Javanese. But both inactive due;1. Indonesia's interest in reading is still low. They are busy looking for followers as much as possible with almost the same greeting: "Hello...your blog is very nice .... Please visit me back, and don't forget to follow me back..."2. Blogs that use the Java language is also a little fan. Many Javanese are no longer able to speak Javanese.Your question on my blog is one source of my inspiration. In the future I will try a lot of talk about my country as objective as possible.

Sorry I was so busy and didn't tell the story. It is now No Tree Hill.

Every tourist to Auckland ask that question: Where is the tree?I previously blogged about it in my post above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Tree_Hill,_New_Zealand

The monument and the one tree were one of Auckland's most obvious landmark. However, the One tree Hill has become None tree Hill. Tourists often ask this question ,"Why is it called One Tree Hill, when there is no tree?"

Until 2000, a radiata pine tree stood next to the obelisk. This tree (one of two pines) had been planted to replace a sacred Māori Totara tree, the tree which had given Maungakiekie its English name. This totara had been cut down by a white settler in 1852 for firewood.

However, in the early 1960s during a jamboree, a group of overseas Boy Scouts cut down one of the two newer pines. The remaining tree was later attacked twice with chainsaws by Māori protesters (partly because it was not a native New Zealand species and thus considered an insult). The first attack happened on 28 October 1994, the anniversary of the 1835 Declaration of Independence.[2] A second attack on the 5th of October 2000[3] left the tree unable to recover and so it was removed due to the risk of it dying and falling down.